Device for warming vehicles



(No Model.)

' J. BRODERIGK.

DEVICE FOR WARMING VEHICLES.

No. 523,567. Patented July 24, 1894..

THE uonms PETERS c0. PHUTO-LI THO.. WA SHINGTON, o. c.

' v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JoHN BRODERIGK, OF FULDA, MINNESOTA.

DEVICE FOR WARMING VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.523,56'7, dated July24,1894.

Application filed 111 0116, 1893. Serial No. 464,691. (No model.)

' zen of the United States, residing at Fulda, in

the county of Murray, in the State of Minne-' sota, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Warming Vehicles; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings,.forming a part of this specification.

'lheobject of my invention is to provide a simple device whereby theoccupant of a buggy or sleigh may be kept warm, by means of a smalllampplaced in a suitable receptacle in the bottom of the vehicle, andalso provides means whereby the heated airmay be spread and all dangerof fire obviated.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device ready foruse. Fig. 2 is a section through the heating box. Fig. 3 is a transversesection through the heating box and Warming pan. Fig. A is a perspectiveView, parts being broken out to show the interior. Figs. 5, 6, and 7,show thelamp cover, heating box, and warming pan, respectively andopenings whereby the heat is conducted into the latter. k

A represents a portion of the bottom of the buggy box and the line B B,shows the position of the reach. v

C is a receptacle projecting below the bottom of the vehicle and inwhich the lamp L is placed. g

The aperture formed in the bottom of the v buggy is closed by aperforated wire screen D having acentral aperture d in which the chimneyof the lamp fits snugly. A thin metal plate Eis secured over this screenhaving a large aperture e.. To this plate is secured the rectangularlamp cover F, which has'a central aperture f in its top.

A rectangular heating box, G is hinged by one side to the buggy bottomand secured by a fastening g at the other. Apertures H are formed in thesides, top and ends, for the escape of the heat into the buggy. In thisheating box is formed an inner compartment I reaching the whole Width ofthe box G, but leaving a space at the ends and the top. Perforations 1;are formed in the sides to allow the heat to escape into the spacebetween the compartment I and the outer casing G A perforated deflectingstrip J is placed in this compartment I.

The operation of my device as far as described is as follows:-The heator flame from the lamp passes up through the lamp chimney and isdirected by the aperture in the lamp cover, so as to strike thedeflecting plate in the interior chamber of the heating box. The heatthen passes into the outer chamber and through the perforation into thebuggy. The heatisthus so thoroughlydiffused by passing from one chamberto another that there is no danger from fire to the robes or clothes ofthe occupants. The Whole may, however be covered with awire screen, ifthought desirabla;

In order to, more thoroughly ditfuse the heat, I make use of the warmingpan K, consisting of a flat rectangular casing having feet It andattached to the heating box G by means of a hook fastening m. Anaperture nis formed in the Warming pan K on the side where it touchesthe heating box G, and an aperture N is formed in the said heating boxregistering with the aperture n. In the lamp cover F a similar apertureP is formed, only the metal is not'cut away at the top but is bentinwardly forming a flap or deflector p which reaches over a smallportion of the lamp chimney, and thus deflects some of the heat into-thewarming .pan. Apertures R are formed in the top of the warming pan K onthe side away from the aperture n to allow the heated air to escape.

I claim as my invention- In a heatingdevicefor; vehicles, the com--bination with a heating box, consisting of an inner and outercompartment having perforations communicating between the saidcompartments and a perforated deflecting strip in the inner compartmentand having aper- Signed at Fulda this 30th day of January,

JOHN BRODERIOK.

In presence of- EDWARD, MOTT, .WILSON Boner.

